Hanoi to host Japanese language festival

The Japan Foundation for Cultural Exchanges in Vietnam and the Vietnam-Japan Human Resources Corporation Centre (VJCC) will hold a Japanese language festival in Hanoi on October 17.
The Japan Foundation for Cultural Exchanges in Vietnam and theVietnam-Japan Human Resources Corporation Centre (VJCC) will hold aJapanese language festival in Hanoi on October 17.

Participants will have a chance to exchange and express their linguisticabilities in the Japanese language. Three competitors will win a tripto Japan in the next two weeks.

First launched in1997, the annual festival aims to encourage people to learn the Japaneselanguage, study its culture, and strengthen friendship, solidarity andmutual understanding between the governments and peoples of Vietnam andJapan.

In 2009, out of 300 contestants, Nguyen Huu Bao Trung from Hanoi’s University of Science and Technology won first prize./.

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